Re: clearing filesystem cache for I/O benchmarks

[Bernd Eckenfels]

In article <87smbfr5qe.fsf@xxxxxxx> you wrote:
> Thanks, that looks pretty useful, at least to force the I/O to make it
> outside the kernel.  I'm still getting cache hits for some read tests
> though

This might be due to read ahead... how  do you check the cache hits, what
read patterns do you have?

Greetings
Bernd
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